Almost three billion people around the world—or 4 out of every 10 individuals—are exposed to high levels of smoke each day from traditional…
Consider the following scenario. After a victory by the left-wing Syriza party, Greece’s new government announces that it wants to…
The clamour for the right to social pensions is another attempt to deal with the Indian state’s inability to provide adequate social…
Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of…
The NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics brings together leading American and European economists to discuss a broad range of…
During the five years from 2003 to 2007, global perceptions of risk were unusually low, as reflected in the market pricing of sovereign…
This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets…
We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and…